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OPINION

Letter: Trump not ready for presidency

Donald Trump is not prepared to be president. He made that clear, once again, when Chris Matthews asked him if the woman getting an abortion should be punished. Trump had clearly never thought about this. He didn't know the right-to-lifers' answer they had carefully crafted over the past 40 years. Instead, he tried to reason what the answer should be.

If Person A pays Person B to murder someone, B is guilty of murder but A must be guilty of something. I'm sure that's what Trump reasoned. So A must be punished. Trump couldn't decide what that punishment should be on the spectrum offered by Matthews from 10 cents to 10 years but he knew she should be punished.

Now the right-to-lifers went berserk when Trump pointed out the logical consequence to their claim that abortion is murder. They know that one in three women will have an abortion at some time in their lives. And they know it's far easier to pass a law against the doctor (not for murder, of course) than make a third of the female population criminals. Time enough for that when they have control of the presidency, Congress and Supreme Court.

As Michael Kinsley noted, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” Trump told the uncomfortable truth of what “abortion is murder” implies.

I'm curious what the Trump supporters will do when the Republicans deny Trump the nomination. The Republican Party will surely find a way to do that.